Joey: Can I see the comics?
Chandler: This is New York Times.
Joey: Okay, may I see the comics?
And that is the joke. So why is that funny?
Who is Holden McGroin? Joey looks for a new stage name. Over the episode he tries many of them on. By the end he appears on a stage and introduces himself with a name that gets lots of laughter from the audience. Joey: Holden McGroin. Who is Holden McGroin? And why is Joey taking that name is funny? At first I thought Holden McGroin is some all America-famous guy. But I googled and googled and nothing. But than I realized Holden McGroin is a play of sounds. If you say really quickly 'Holden McGroin' native speaker would hear not a name but three words 'holding my growing'. It is your first step in understanding the joke. The next step is that you got to know that 'growing' in slang means 'testicles'. The rest is pretty about putting two parts together. A man holding on to one's testicles in public is considered weird and therefore funny. I love this joke, not just because most of the traffic to this blog comes through googling 'Holden McGroin
So I assume it should be something about modal verbs "may" and "can". Like one uses "make" for a more polite(high-brow) requests. And since New York Times is something what an intellectual person would read, Joey thinks that asking for comics might also require that lavel of approach. What do you think?
ReplyDeletethat's what I always understood from this joke too.. since it's the times then he has to speak more sophisticated ...
DeleteGood, I guessed right! And after all it is Joey, the answer should've been somewhere on a surface)
DeleteLike you say, its an intellectual persons newspaper, I always thought that it wouldn't have any comics, and that's what Ross tries to say, but Joey misunderstands.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Robert!
DeleteRight. The New York Times does not have comics. As stated above, it is considered an intellectual newspaper. When Joey asks to see the comics, and Chandler replies that it is the New York Times, Joey interprets this as he isn't asking smartly enough. Hence the "may I?"
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, what a beautiful set of writers! Just so funny)
Deleteross is always correcting peoples grammars, so joey thought he said it wrong, not the fact that the new york times don't have any comic strips
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